Identity
Knowing who You are WITHOUT THEM (a significant other)… is your greatest gift TO THEM.
Shane Willard • Sexuality•YouTube•Grace City Church
The moral drama here gets to the core of human existence. Notice that the passage says that Eve saw the fruit as “desirable for gaining wisdom.” Satan was not just selling Eve the best fruit in the garden, but something more fundamentally appealing. He was telling Eve that if she ate the fruit, she would be independently wise. The promise was auton
... See morePaul David Tripp • Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
Even in ‘perfection’ – the Garden of Eden – you can’t keep out the voice of the talking snake. The voice that says, “Oh… You have everything! But here’s one thing you don’t have….”
Shane Willard • on Adam and Eve • Genesis 1-3.
He begins to introduce us to the great kingdom paradox: at the end of me, I find real life in him.
Kyle Idleman • The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins
The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social
... See moreC. S. Lewis • Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics)
The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
C. S. Lewis
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